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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67185	A sermon preached at Bowden in Cheshire, April 6th, 1691 at the funeral of the right honourable Mary, Countess of Warrington by Richard Wroe.	Wroe, Richard, 1641-1717.	1691 (1691)	Wing W3729; ESTC R12196	15,529	32

apply our selves to him for it and by Faith lay hold on the Merits of his Death and the Prevalency of his Intercession First The All-sufficiency of Christ in the Work of Man's Salvation is the great Thing here asserted He is able to save to the uttermost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Phrase is Emphatical and may denote either ad perfectum as some render it the Compleatness of the Salvation wrought by him or in perpetuum as others the Permanency and Perpetuity of it or else the Perfection of his Influence in working out so mighty Salvation for us 1. The Salvation he wrought for us is every way complete and perfect He saves from the lowest degree of Sin and Misery to the highest Pitch of Glory and Happiness He delivers us from all Evil and sets us beyond the reach of it He delivers us from the hands of our Enemies and he exalts us in Triumph over them He leaves no thing unaccomplished that can be reckoned any tendency to or part of our Salvation Whatever good Work he has begun he will perform and finish it Phil. 1. 6. He will stablish us in the Faith and at last make Faith perfect and consummate being the Author and Finisher of it Heb. 12. 2. He makes Men ready to every good word and work and preserves their whole spirit soul and body blameless to his coming 1 Thes 5. 23. And then he will improve Grace into Glory and summate the Happiness already commenc'd in endless Fruition Which is another Notion of the Phrase and denotes II. The Permanence and Perpetuity of his Salvation The Purchase he made for us is of an Inheritance Eternal in the Heavens incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away His Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom that has no Bounds and knows no End He saveth to the uttermost that is for ever than which nothing can be more or rather beyond which nothing is Other Saviours and Deliverers hath God raised up for his People but for a Time onely but he made his Son an everlasting Saviour He sent him to purchase Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 12. III. His saving to the uttermost may denote the power of his Influence the perfection of all his Vndertakins in the work of our Salvation Whatever was to be done he alone was able to do it whatever he undertook to do he perfected and finished it Was there a Price to be paid He laid down his own Life a most valuable Purchase a precious Ransome Were there Enemies to be subdued which required Power and Authority to effect it Behold him sat down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on high invested with all Power both in Heaven and Earth Do we need daily Pardon and Favour from God Behold him continually interceding for us with the most efficacious Oratory of his Blood and Merits presenting that before his Father and by Vertue of that Meritorious Oblation reconciling him to us Thus he saves all manner of ways by all manner of means Nothing is wanting to our Salvation nothing can be done to make it more complete and perfect And all this the Apostle here confirms by a double Reason 1. From the Uncommunicableness of his Priesthood in the Verse foregoing this Man hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacerdotium nunquam transiturum that cannot pass away that does not descend from Father to Son intransibile such as passeth not from him to any other which is as much as to say such as has no Successor in his Mediatorial Office he being the only yet withal eternal Mediator and therefore is able to save to the uttermost 2. From his continual Intercession which is the last Act of his Priesthood he ever liveth to make Intercession for us There are Two Parts or Offices of Christ's Priesthood the one of offering up himself a Sacrifice on the Cross the other his appearing before God in Heaven and there presenting the Merits of that Blood and Sacrifice which is his interceding for us We read Rev. 8. 3. Another Angel came and stood at the Altar having a Golden Censer and there was given unto him much Incense that he should offer it with the Prayers of all Saints upon the Golden Altar The Angel is Christ the Incense his own Prayers in Heaven which he continually puts up when the Saints pray on Earth and so perfumes all their Prayers and procures all Blessings for them and so St. John names both these together 1 Joh. 2. 2. Calling him at once our Advocate and the Propitiation for our Sins which make up the Two Parts of his Office the one the great Act of his Priesthood on Earth when he offered up his own Blood on the Cross with strong Crying and Tears Heb. 5. 7. The other is his continual Employment in Heaven where having brought that Blood into the Holy of Holies he there incessantly offers it up that is presents it before his Father as a perfect Atonement and full Propitiation for the Sins of Men and by Vertue of that Oblation prays or intercedes for them Now great is the Force of the Apostles Reason to prove his Ability to save to the uttermost seeing he ever liveth to make Intercession For he dyed to merit our Salvation but he ever liveth actually to confer it upon those that come to God by him If he had not lived again by his Resurrection whereby he was declared to be the Son of God with power Rom. 1. 4. or if he had revived but for some time onely and not for ever we had not been raised from our Sins nor Death perfectly subdued But since we can affirm with St. Paul Rom. 6. 9. That he being raised from the dead dyeth no more death hath no more Dominion over him since he liveth for ever we may strongly argue with the same Apostle Rom. 5. 10. If when we were Enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his Life If he being risen was able to exalt himself to a Life glorious and immortal we have proof sufficient of his Ability to save to the uttermost Yet the strength of the Argument lyes not in his being risen to Life but in his living for ever to this end that he may intercede for us For others besides him shall live for ever Angels are immortal and the Saints shall survive to Eternal Ages yet both of them are so far from being able to save to the uttermost that they could neither Purchase Salvation for themselves nor others The Highest Angel in Heaven could not Redeem so much as one of their own Laps'd Tribe nor all the Celestial Hierarchy the whole Angelick Order save any of the fallen Angels The greatest Saint in Glory could not so much as Redeem his own Soul or give to God a Ransom for it But 't is his Sole Prerogative whose proper Office it is to intercede and who therefore lives for ever that he may execute an Eternal